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Cops beat deaf man for 7 minutes because he didn't respond to them
An Oklahoma man was beat for seven minutes by police because he did not respond to their yelling. 64-year-old Pearl Pearson, a deaf diabetic driver who lives in Oklahoma City was hospitalized as a ...
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NSA phone-data mining prevents few attacks, group says
The study, to be released Monday, corroborates the findings of a White House- appointed review group, which said last month that the NSA counterterrorism program "was not essential to preventing ...
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Gift Economy Party
FREEDOM IS COMING!Our mission statement:Our aim is to increase this gifting and sharing of knowledge, skills and resources until it is the norm throughout the world, and the existing web of money ...
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Take Two 'Normal' People, Add Money To Just One Of Them, And Watch What Happens
Surprised?
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The Gift Economy, Anarchism and Strategies for Change - Home
The Gift Economy, Anarchism and Strategies for Change
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Three Children Died During The Polar Vortex After Their Heat Was Cut Off
By Annie-Rose Strasser on January 13, 2014 at 11:48 am " Three Children Died During The Polar Vortex After Their Heat Was Cut Off" CREDIT: Shutterstock Like the rest of the mid-west, the town of ...
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Fracking: Cameron Offers Councils Drill Money
About a hundred people have been living in tents and caravans at the spot near the M62 where IGas has been given permission to carry out exploratory drilling. Most are local but others have ...
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Baltimore's quest for affordable housing [Letter]
Baltimore, just like other cities, is no stranger to the need of affordable housing ("No room at the inn for Maryland's poor," Dec. 28). Some would say that we get more than our share, but as The ...
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Why you don't hear about some presidential candidates
Two years ago, there were three truly national presidential candidates on the November ballot. Two were Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. But who was the
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Mothers in the Military: Punishing Mothers Who Serve | POV - Regarding War | PBS
Mothers in the Military: Punishing Mothers Who Serve Before I was a mother, I could work until 6:00 or 7:00 in the evening, then head off to college courses until 10:00. I could come in early and ...
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NSA refuses to answer whether it spies on Congress
The US National Security Agency sidestepped the issue when a Senator penned a letter to the agency asking if it has conducted surveillance on members of Congress and other American lawmakers, saying
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This Is What The Marijuana Industry Really Looks Like
Pot farmers: They're just like every other small-time farmer. That's the sense you get from looking at the images in H. Lee's , a series of photos depicting everyday life for marijuana growers in ...
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Daily Kos
NY Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, member in good standing of Democratic Party's warmongering wing A group of Democrats are joining Republicans in trying to undermine the White House's negotiations with ...
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Basic income versus the robots
An economic all-stars match-up. Two weeks ago, I wrote about the idea of a citizen's income: the state replacing the vast majority of the benefit system with one cash payment made to everyone ...
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The Legacy of the Boomer Boss
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - OVER the next decade millions of business owners born during the baby boom will retire. Many, with no obvious succession strategy, will simply sell their companies, the backbone
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9 Huge Government Conspiracies That Actually Happened
We all know the conspiracy theories - the government's plan for 911, the second gunman who shot JFK, the evolution of the elite from a race of blood-drinking, shape-shifting lizards. But the people
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China won't become the world's largest economy until 2028
According to the economic consultancy Cebr's World Economic League Table (WELT) China's GDP will overtake the US in 2028 to become the world's largest economy - much later than some analysts have ...
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Find A Free Desk In Someone's Office, And Feel More Creative
Nick Couch describes Free Desk Here--his new service linking people who want a change of scenery with people who have desks to spare--as a "physical LinkedIn." It's a way for people to meet new ...
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Some members of Congress don't want you to share this. Why? Because they're
What do US allies, national security experts and 63% of Americans agree on? They agree that the interim agreement with Iran, one of the President's biggest achievements is good for Americans and ...
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I Knew Pope Francis Was Good, But When I Found Out Everything He Did in 2013, I
3. He embraced and kissed Vinicio Riva Source: huffpost.com November saw Pope Francis embrace Vinicio Riva, a man scarred by a genetic disease. Fighting agonising pain on a daily basis, such an act
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How the wealthiest Americans use this one weird trick to avoid $100 billion in
By Travis GettysTuesday, December 17, 2013 15:42 EST The wealthiest Americans have avoided paying about $100 billion in taxes through a loophole that essentially makes estate taxes voluntary ...
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Why the Rich Don't Give to Charity
When Mort Zuckerman, the New York City real-estate and media mogul, lavished $200 million on Columbia University in December to endow the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, he did
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David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'
America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of
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Middle America assails Washington machine as indifferent and 'above us'
MASON, Ohio -- America has met the enemy, and it is Washington. That was the message from a focus group of 11 Cincinnati-area voters, who issued a scathing and impassioned indictment Wednesday of ...
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